Nearly three thousand years after they were first composed, the Iliad and the Odyssey remain the foundation stones of Western literature. Homer’s epics gave us the wrath of Achilles and the long homeward voyage of…
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When people picture the Palm Beach lifestyle, they think of pristine beaches, luxury cars, and premier real estate. Tucked along the world-famous Worth Avenue, however, is a quieter kind of treasure. In a recent episode…
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Some inscriptions reveal more in their modesty than a page of praise ever could. On the front free endpaper of a 1940 first edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway wrote to his…
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A book signed by its author is more valuable than the same book unsigned. Most collectors accept this as axiomatic. What fewer collectors fully appreciate is that the signed copy and the association copy are…
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It is one of the strangest stories in the history of modern literature. A novel rejected by every commercial publisher who saw it. A novel prosecuted for obscenity in the United States before it had…
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It is one of the great near-misses in modern publishing history. In 1953 a forty-one-year-old schoolmaster named William Golding finished a short, strange novel about a group of English boys stranded on a tropical island…
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